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SC set 27 Question 17 So dogged were Frances Perkins’investi

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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: SC set 27 Question 17 So dogged were Frances Perkins’investi
 Post Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:25 am 
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thanks for posting that screen shot.

now that we know this is from gmatprep, you should probably post a new thread, in the GMATPREP Verbal folder.

gkumar wrote:
Can someone please clarify why there is no "and" between "So dogged were Frances Perkins' investigations of the garment industry," and "so persistent her lobbying for wage and hour reform"?

Thanks in advance.


wow! i would expect an "and" there, too. this is ... interesting.
i guess we should just remember this, as one of those one-off idiomatic constructions. there are other constructions (such as "the more X happens, the more Y happens") that don't seem to conform to normal grammar rules, either.

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Also, I am also unsure why a comma exists before "that". So dogged were Frances Perkins' investigations that .... seems to be correct.

you're right - that WOULD be the construction, if the second part (blocked off by the commas) weren't there.
the added part ("so persistent...") is blocked off by commas on each side. you're inappropriately assigning one of those commas to the larger structure of the sentence, when in fact both of them belong to the modifier.
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sh.bharath
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 Post Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 5:29 pm 
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datakix wrote:
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I got this question.. Answer is soo tricky..
I hope somebody answer this..
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tim
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Sorry, you're going to have to do some work yourself on this one before we can help you. What didn't you understand about this one? What did you try? Where did you get stuck?

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 Post Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:32 pm 
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This is Indeed a GMAT Prep Question.

I followed the below approach for arriving at the answer E).

1) That is essential as per the "so..that" idiom. So A) and D are out.
2) I feel that the choice C) very awkward.
3) There is lack of Parallelism in B)

In the end only Choice E) is left which is least screwed.

But , i am still not fully convinced about Choice C)....Can anyone put more light on Choice C). Why it is incorrect Vis-a-Vis Choice E) ?
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tim
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Ask yourself what role is being played by the part that is set off by commas in each of these answer choices. In answer choice C, there's no reasonable way to connect that piece back to the rest of the sentence in a way that makes sense. With answer choice E, however, the part set off by commas serves to reiterate and clarify the information in the first part of the sentence in a way that maintains parallelism as well..

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 Post Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:13 am 
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Hi Tim ,

Thanks for your explanation!

I am clear abt Choices A, B and C)

But i want to know that

Can Choices A) and D) be eliminated on the basis of so .......That idiom ( something present between so and that )

Since as per the usage there is nothing present in between so and that.

I am more concerned abt choice D
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tim
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 Post Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:28 pm 
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yes, in D we need a "that". the "so" shows up twice in A and is therefore redundant..

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